"I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money."

-- George Eliot

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.”
“In Luke ... receiving the Holy Spirit is the way that those who already believe in Christ are empowered to serve Him. .... It's more important to focus on how one lives the Spirit-filled life than on a rigid formula for receiving it.... Receiving the Spirit in the Lucan sense is not a one-time event, but an ongoing way of life.”
“Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.”
“By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.”
“I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.”
“She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.”
“Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.”
“In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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